Tough Love
By: Pookman
There is a table with two chairs; one on either end. Andy is in one chair, and Daddy is in another. The Narrator stands to the far left or right of the stage.
Lights up.
NARRATOR: The following is the true story of how I learned not to rock on two legs of a chair.
(Andy is slightly rocking on two legs of his chair.)
DADDY: Andy, don’t rock back on your chair.
(Andy tips back slightly further on the two legs of the chair.)
DADDY: Don’t rock back on your chair, Andy.
(Andy just looks at Daddy.)
DADDY: I mean it.
(Andy rocks a few more times and falls backwards hitting the ground powerfully. Andy begins to whimper/curse/bawl.)
DADDY: Aw, come here. (Motions Andy over. Andy comes.) There, there. (Smacks Andy hard on the back of his head.) (Shouting.) What the hell is wrong with you?
NARRATOR: And I never did it again.
Lights down.
"Tough Love" debuted March 29, 2002, performed by J Nebergall, P Ookman, A Werner.
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